Matt Hancock starts his jungle jamboree

‘Mr Hancock, I presume?’ was the reaction our former Health Secretary presumably hoped to elicit upon entering the jungle last night. Unfortunately, it was a wall of hysterical laughter which met him instead as comedian Seann Walsh as the comedian doubled up in hysterics at the sight of Hancock tottering his way across the rope bridge and down the steps to meet him.

Early polling shows most of the public are eagerly awaiting Hancock’s elimination – and it seems the stars of I’m a Celebrity share in that contempt. Charlene White of Loose Women spoke for many when she asked ‘Why are you here?’ with Hancock’s mumbled excuse that ‘there are so few ways in which politicians can show that we are human beings’ prompting a withering look from White.

Radio DJ Chris Moyles mocked Hancock for his role in the pandemic, ordering him to say ‘Next slide please’. After the hapless Hancock gamely played along, Culture Club frontman Boy George told him: ‘You’re really going to get it.